The 2025 season marks the 11th year of our annual College Football Betting Awards, and the competition for teams to stand out in sportsbooks has never been more fierce.
The top level of the sport, the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), expanded to include a record 136 teams. Betting volume continues to increase too with the expansion of legalized betting across most of the country, helping to sharpen the market and therefore cut down the outliers from a gambling perspective. But these six teams still managed to separate from the pack in our established categories over the course of the regular season.
Team of the Year: Ohio State Buckeyes (team with the nation’s best against the spread record)
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